HalAlper

About

Hal Alper is the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #1 at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006 and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research from 2006 to 2008 and at Shire Human Genetic Therapies from 2007 to 2008. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Cellular and Metabolic Engineering at UT Austin, where his lab focuses on applying and extending the approaches of related fields such as synthetic biology, systems biology and protein engineering.

Educational Qualifications

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (2006-2008)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Shire Human Genetic Therapies (2007-2008)
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006)
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (2002)

Select Awards & Honors

• American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow (2024)
• Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering – AIChE (2023)
• National Academy of Inventors fellow (2019)
• Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering – TAMEST (2019)
• Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute – AIChE (2018)
• Young Investigator Award – Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (2015)
• Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering (2014)
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2014)
• Biotechnology and Bioengineering Daniel I.C. Wang Award (2013)
• Young Investigator Award – Office of Naval Research (2011)
• DuPont Young Professor Award (2010)
• Texas Exes Teaching Award – Texas Exes (2008)

Related Websites

• Alper Research Lab – Laboratory for Cellular and Metabolic Engineering

Select Publications